For about a year I was breaking down the grocery truck with another stocker, but it was not the same guy all of the time, because they would quit and this one guy transferred to another store. Well I had to come in 2 hours before the night crew and break it down and then stock my aisles, and I could never get it finished on time, and got bitched at for overtime.
We recently got a new grocery manager, thank God! Now the whole grocery crew works together to break down the truck and it only takes 30 minutes maybe more, and I can get my work done on time! Woohoo!!!
Our store just got a remodel and we were told that the pallets will be aisie friendly and arranged accordingly in result eliminating the need to break the pallets down into uboats. Well, the remodeling is done and it's actually much worse now.
Our store got remodeled last year and I still have to hunt for stuff. Several of the aisles will have one type of product in the front and then a completely unrelated product in the back. Example: aisle 9 has beer near the front and bread in the back half of the aisle. Now what do beer and bread have in common other than they both begin with the letter B? Peanut butter is in the same aisle as plastic wraps and bags because they say a lot of people take peanut butter to school or work for lunch. So they put the peanut butter and the sandwich bags in the same aisle. Like that really makes a lot of sense. First of all, not everyone takes peanut butter to lunch. Second, people who eat peanut butter don't always eat it just for lunch. There are other examples but peanut butter is the one I remember right off the bat because I always forget where it is.
Our store got remodeled last year and I still have to hunt for stuff. Several of the aisles will have one type of product in the front and then a completely unrelated product in the back. Example: aisle 9 has beer near the front and bread in the back half of the aisle. Now what do beer and bread have in common other than they both begin with the letter B? Peanut butter is in the same aisle as plastic wraps and bags because they say a lot of people take peanut butter to school or work for lunch. So they put the peanut butter and the sandwich bags in the same aisle. Like that really makes a lot of sense. First of all, not everyone takes peanut butter to lunch. Second, people who eat peanut butter don't always eat it just for lunch. There are other examples but peanut butter is the one I remember right off the bat because I always forget where it is.
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My store has all the flour, sugar and baking items at the front of aisle 5. Then waaayyy down at the other end of isle 5, waaaaayyy up on the top shelf is the baking soda and baking powder. Right under the chocolate chips sign.
Back last Christmas I was looking for corn syrup. Now I consider corn syrup to be a baking or candy making ingredient. I looked all up and down the baking aisle. Finally I found it two aisles over with the pancake syrup.
Yep, same here again with the corn syrup and it is on the front end of the cereal aisle, but next the the baking aisle so I know that you are not the same store.
That aisle 5 of yours sounds just like my store, what state are you in?
But, maybe Kroger lays out some of their stores just alike.
Stores are designed to be like the warehouse to increase efficiency, older stores that get aisle friendly pallets can be boned sometimes. At mine we get several pallets that have 4 different aisles' stuff of them and others that are for single sets.
Not all pallets are aisle friendly though. There are aisle friendly pallets (one aisle), split aisle friendly pallets (two aisles on two stacked boards), and multi-aisle pallets (three or more aisles).
